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All CMBC students are admitted to specific departments and must comply with their program requirements
Global Change, Marine Ecosystems, and Conservation Policy (SIO295/295L)
(Jackson and participating faculty). A summer curriculum (taught since 2004) serves as a forum to introduce students to the broad range of issues and to draw students into working collaboratively with each other, their faculty sponsors, and with MAS students. In 2008 the course will differ expands from nine to ten weeks to include 1) greater treatment of the physical sciences relevant to global change; 2) by adding sections on global change issues in the social sciences; and 3) sections on negotiation, decision making, and law. Enrollment is limited to CMBC PhD and MAS students. Key elements of this course will be made available to students in the SEA STARS (summer diversity program). The course is open as a Certificate course to a limited number of qualified applicants through the UCSD Extension.
Week 1 Recent and past marine biodiversity
Week 2 Physical oceanography & climate
Week 3 Ocean chemistry & paleoceanography
Week 4 Ecology & ecosystem science
Week 5 Economics I (trust & markets)
Week 6 Economics II (global change, fisheries)
Week 7 Resource law, international law
Week 8 Governance, decisions, policy & ethics
Week 9 Communications and media
Week 10 Synthesis and student projects
CMBC Forum (Norris and rotating Faculty)
This course is a bi-weekly, 2-hour student-led Lab Meeting that will permit students to regularly interact with each other, discuss their research plans and outcomes, read, discuss, and present position papers and research literature, as well as plan and discuss the results of internships, group interdisciplinary projects and international research programs. This course is, above all, intended to foster a sense of community among the students, help develop collaborations between students in different fields, and provide regular feedback to faculty on what is working or not working in the project. This course will be offered every quarter and the location of class meetings will rotate between the departments involved in the project.
Seminar on Global Change, Marine Ecosystems, and Conservation Policy (Rotating faculty).
This annual course will modify and broaden an existing student-led SIO seminar: Environmental Sustainability and Policy (ESP) Climate Change Forum . The current ESP Climate Change Forum addresses social science and natural science issues surrounding aspects of climate change. Making this a formal part of the CMBC curriculum will insure that all CMBC students come together at least once a year in a seminar devoted to exploring one of the program issues (ocean acidification, climate change, sea level rise, global commons and resistance) from physical, biological, political, legal, historical and economic science perspectives. In addition to the current oral presentations, students will prepare written reports and web presentations that will serve as resources for students who arrive in later years.
Science, Conflict and Policy (Oreskes).
This new lecture and seminar course will be taught in alternate years and will be required of all CMBC students before they qualify for candidacy. The course will address the social, cultural, and political challenges to turning scientific knowledge into effective policy action. Scientists generally presume that the solution to environmental problems is to get the science right. Yet experience shows that even when pertinent science is well established, there are many obstacles to its uptake and implementation. Science can also be used as a tool to extend political controversy and conflict and delay policy action. This course will examine the recent history of science in the context of social policy, with an emphasis on understanding and comparing the conditions under which scientific knowledge has formed an effective basis for policy in the 20th century with those under which it has not. Topics will include the origins of science advising in the U.S. federal government; contrasts between the U.S. and other national and international contexts; the role of the media in stoking conflict; specific case studies such as DDT, fisheries, and climate change; and recent theoretical work on science and the state. Guest lecturers will include journalists and former science advisors in the UCSD community.
Marine Environmental Law (Mengerink).
This course will alternate with Science, Conflict and Policy and will address domestic and international laws and policies covering a range of topics including fisheries management, coastal development, land-based sources of marine pollution, marine protected areas, and resource extraction. It will include review of laws including the Coastal Zone Management Act, National Marine Sanctuaries Act, the Law of the Sea, the London Dumping Convention, and multilateral fisheries conventions, among others.
Communicating Broadly (Jackson, Peach, Sharon Franks-SIO).
This course will build upon the success of the 1-week communications section of the summer course to train students to communicate fluently in traditional and non-traditional venues and media. In essence, to both read and write more effectively in the unique languages of professional and public speaking, news media, web sites, blogs, and film. The course will consist of lectures, interactive training in public speaking and interviews, and production of specific projects including op-eds, web sites, blogs, and public service films (PSAs), and minidocumentaries. Course materials will be fully documented on a dedicated website, and the course will be professionally evaluated. We plan to work with the NSF IGERT Program Directors and colleagues at other institutions to disseminate this course.
Natural Resource Economics (Groves/Watson).
This course introduces students to standard economic principles and models for understanding and analyzing human uses of both exhaustible and renewable natural resources. The standard paradigm of markets and private incentives is developed and its limitations examined. Particular emphasis is devoted to problems arising from common property resources, including such global commons as the high seas and the atmosphere. The difficulties of designing efficient economic policies for the extremely long term (viz. climate change) and in the presence of large uncertainties are also discussed. Regulations, including innovative cap and trade markets and externality taxes (e.g. carbon tax ) are examined. Game theory models of negotiation and bargaining are developed and used to explore international environmental agreements to govern and manage global common resources. Three motivating applications relevant to this program are carried throughout the course the economics of climate change, fisheries management, and the conservation of endangered marine species.
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